{"id":51581,"date":"2018-02-11T17:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=51581"},"modified":"2018-02-11T17:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:50:55","slug":"lucy-and-desi-encounter-infinite-laughs-and-too-many-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=51581","title":{"rendered":"Lucy and Desi Encounter Infinite Laughs and &#8220;Too Many Girls&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Too_Many_Girls_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Too_Many_Girls_2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Too_Many_Girls_2-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the 1940 musical comedy <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/too-many-girls\/888574600402\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Too Many Girls<\/a><\/em>, carefree college freshman Connie Casey (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Lucille%20Ball%7C825159&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lucille Ball<\/a>) didn\u2019t have the complete trust of her wealthy dad, so he put four of the campus jocks (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Desi%20Arnaz%7C802395&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Desi Arnaz<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Richard%20Carlson%7C628951&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Carlson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Eddie%20Bracken%7C804521&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Eddie Bracken<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Hal%20Le%20Roy%7C895973&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hal LeRoy<\/a>) on his payroll to keep an eye on her. Delightful screen take on the Rodgers-Hart musical also stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Ann%20Miller%7C456593&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Miller<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?cr=Frances%20Langford%7C807344&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Frances Langford<\/a>; songs include &#8220;I Didn&#8217;t Know What Time It Was,&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;re Nearer,&#8221; \u201c&#8217;Cause We Got Cake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Too_Many_Girls-538x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-51583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Too_Many_Girls-538x1024.jpg 538w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Too_Many_Girls-158x300.jpg 158w, https:\/\/onecinephile.wpenginepowered.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Too_Many_Girls.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The film, which was recently released on DVD as part of the Warner Archive Collection, is legendary due to the fact that it was on this project that Lucy and Desi first fell in love &#8212; paving the way for their future film collaborations as well as a little TV show called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moviesunlimited.com\/search?q=i+love+lucy&#038;mod=AP\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>I Love Lucy<\/em><\/a>. And the rest is Hollywood history!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1940 musical comedy Too Many Girls, carefree college freshman Connie Casey (Lucille Ball) didn\u2019t have the complete trust of her wealthy dad, so he put four of the campus jocks (Desi Arnaz, Richard Carlson, Eddie Bracken, Hal LeRoy)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9744,"featured_media":51583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1442,7488,7486,7489,7490,7491,1765,7487],"coauthors":[5618],"class_list":["post-51581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-articles","tag-1940s-movies","tag-ann-miller","tag-desi-arnaz","tag-eddie-bracken","tag-frances-langford","tag-hal-leroy","tag-lucille-ball","tag-richard-carlson"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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